Please instead see Amara1/Install
Tips for installing Amara on Ubuntu
You can choose to use the system-wide Python install, or build your own in your home directory. These tips cover both approaches.
Note: also tested on Fedora Core 7
Using the site-wide Python
This section has instructions for root and non-root users. Unfortunately, in either case, you may need some packages installed, so if you're non-root you may have to ask your sysadmin to do the following for you to set up for compiling Python extensions:
sudo apt-get install python-dev gcc libc6-dev
If the above is not an option, then you must use the full home directory install, so skip to that section.
If you will be installing Amara as root you can skip to "Install 4Suite and Amara".
If you want to install as a regular user, start by prepping your environment on the command line. For BASH users:
export PREFIX=$HOME/lib export PYTHONPATH=$PREFIX/lib/python2.4/site-packages export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
The latter environment variable (PATH) is necessary in order to pick up scripts (associated with python packages) which are installed into $HOME/bin before instances of the same scripts elsewhere in your $PATH
Note: if you switch to a different terminal you will need to re-run these commands or you can add them permanently to your $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.bash_profile, so they persist
Then setup Python installer prefs, and create the library path. This will tell easy_install to install extensions in your home directory so that they're available to the site-wide Python:
echo -e "[easy_install]\nprefix=$PREFIX" > /tmp/pydistutils.cfg echo -e "site_dirs=$PREFIX/lib/python\$py_version_short/site-packages" >> /tmp/pydistutils.cfg echo -e "\n[install]\ninstall_lib=$PREFIX/lib/python\$py_version_short/site-packages" >> /tmp/pydistutils.cfg echo -e "install_scripts=$HOME/bin" >> /tmp/pydistutils.cfg mkdir -p $PREFIX/lib/python2.4/site-packages cp /tmp/pydistutils.cfg $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg
Just use "2.5" rather than "2.4" if that's the Python version you're using.
Note: It appears that the Python2.5 packaged with OpenSuse 10.2 has a bug on loading Python extensions and will fail loading 4Suite. Until Suse releases a fix it is advised to compile your own Python as explained in the next section.
If you are installing Amara along with a 4Suite-XML egg from cheeseshop then you can skip to "Install 4Suite and Amara".
Installing Amara with 4Suite from CVS
This section is particularly relevant if you need to build Amara along with 4Suite-XML from CVS. For this scenario, you will need to install Amara via:
python setup.py install
Within a source tree (checked out from CVS or downloaded as a tarball).
You will need to:
Comment out the install_requires entry for 4Suite-XML (in setup.py)
Run python setup.py install
- Comment out 4Suite_XML-1*.egg from $HOME/lib/lib/python2.*/site-packages/easy-install.pth (with a leading '#') if there is such an entry
For a bit of insight on why the last step is relevant (from Charming Python: Hatch Python eggs with setuptools):
- .. Any .pth files found in site-packages/ or on the PYTHONPATH are parsed for additional imports to perform, in a very similar manner to the way directories in those locations that might contain packages are examined. If you handle package management with setuptools, a file called easy-install.pth is modified when packages are installed, upgraded, removed, etc. But you may call your .pth files whatever you like (as long as they have the .pth extension).
Now skip to "Install 4Suite and Amara"
Using full home directory install
Install tools needed to build Python:
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ libreadline-dev libbz2-dev libc6-dev
Then do the build. Just use "2.5" rather than "2.4" if that's the Python version you're using.
tar jxvf ~/dl/python/Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 cd Python-2.4.4 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/lib --enable-unicode=ucs4 make; make install
Note: on Debian Etch, trying to build Python 2.3.6, I found I needed a somewhat different
sudo aptitude install gcc g++ libreadline4-dev libbz2-dev libc6-dev libzzip-dev zlib1g-dev
I'm not sure which of the extra zip development libraries did the trick for allowing the build of the zlib module (needed by easy_install) .
Install 4Suite and Amara
Grab [ez_install http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall these simple instructions]:
wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py python ez_setup.py
You may need to link $HOME/lib/bin/easy_install to a spot in your PATH. Then just one more step:
easy_install amara
And you're done. The remaining sections are optional notes.
Installing CVS versions
If you want to install the latest CVS version of Amara, follow these instructions.
cd ~/src cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.4suite.org:/var/local/cvsroot login cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.4suite.org:/var/local/cvsroot get -r XML1_0-maint 4Suite cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.4suite.org:/var/local/cvsroot get Amara
cd 4Suite python setup.py install cd ../Amara python setup.py install
A quick check
cd ~ python -c "import amara" cd -
Sample setup recipes
Python 2.5.1 on Debian stable, as root
cd /root wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.1/Python-2.5.1.tar.bz2 mkdir src; cd src tar jxvf ../Python-2.5.1.tar.bz2; cd Python-2.5.1 ./configure --enable-unicode=ucs4 #default prefix is /usr/local make; make install cd .. wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py python ez_setup.py easy_install virtualenv